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- ExitW Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 Dragons Eye Software
- Last Updated: 02/05/91 Version 2.2
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- If you have any questions or comments please contact Dragons Eye
- Software at the following address and phone number:
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- Dragons Eye Software
- P.O. Box 200262
- Arlington, TX 76006-0262
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- (817) 265-5619 8am to 10pm CDT 7 days a week
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- Compuserve: 76057,101
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- ExitW includes the following features:
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- o ExitW can display a message before exiting to DOS that has both an Ok
- and Cancel button so the user can cancel or continue the exit process.
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- o Using ExitW, the user can pass back an errorlevel code to DOS.
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- o The user can also set a specific DOS environment string.
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- A new program called EXITWDOS.EXE is used to parse the parameters
- that are included on the ExitW command line, once control is
- returned to DOS. Either an errorlevel code or environment strings
- may be set using the unique combination of ExitW and ExitWDOS.
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- Command line parameters for EXITW.EXE:
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- The following command line parameters should be used when running ExitW:
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- Execute ExitW as: exitw <command> <command> <command> ...
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- (several commands may be specified on the same ExitW command line).
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- Each command should be preceeded by a dash "-" character.
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- M <message>
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- where <message> is a string contained within quotes that you want
- displayed to the user before exiting windows.
- The Messagebox that will be displayed to the user will have
- both Cancel and Ok buttons. If the user presses Cancel, then
- ExitW will NOT shut down Windows.
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- Note that quotes are required for the message text to be displayed
- properly. Example: EXITW -M "Now running Autocad - Click on Cancel
- to abort"
- Quotes are required so that the command line dashes may be included
- in the message text.
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- E <num>
-
- Where <num> is the errorlevel number that should be returned to DOS
- when the program EXITWDOS.EXE is executed. This number should fall
- between 1 and 200 (an errorlevel code of 200 is used by EXITWDOS to
- indicate a data file error).
- Example: EXITW -E 10
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- S <string>
-
- where string is an environment variable string that should be added
- to or changed within the set of current MS-DOS environment settings.
- An example would be: EXITW -S PATH=C:\;C:\DOS
- so that when you run EXITWDOS.EXE, it would set your path to equal
- C:\;C:\DOS.
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- *** If no parameters are given on the ExitW command line then ExitW
- will not create a data file. It will merely cause Windows to exit
- to DOS.
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- WIN.INI entry for EXITW.EXE
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- The following two lines should be present in the WIN.INI file for ExitW
- to operate properly:
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- [ExitW]
- Filename=<path>
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- where <path> is a full pathname a file where ExitW will store the commmand
- line parameters. (EG. Filename=C:\WINDOWS\EXITW.DAT).
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- If this entry is not found, then ExitW will save the parameters to a file
- called EXITW.DAT in the root directory of the current drive.
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- A file: EXITW.INI is included that contains the parameters so that
- you may use your favorite text editor to copy them to the WIN.INI
- file.
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- Running Example:
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- Calling ExitW with the following command line:
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- EXITW -M "Exiting Windows" -S PATH=C:\ -E 10
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- Would cause ExitW to write to disk the options:
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- -S PATH=C:\
- -E 10
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- When EXITWDOS is executed, it will parse the data file created by
- EXITW and change the path to equal "C:\" and will return and errorlevel
- code of 10.
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- ***** IMPORTANT *****
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- When executing EXITWDOS, you MUST specify the location and name of the file
- created by EXITW. Without this specification, EXITWDOS will not know where
- to find the file.
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- For example:
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- EXITWDOS C:\WINDOWS\EXITW.DAT
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- will cause EXITWDOS to look in the directory \WINDOWS on drive C: for the file
- EXITW.DAT. If this file exists, EXITWDOS will parse the file and return the
- information contained within it.
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- Revision History
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- Version 2.3 - 03/02/91
- Got rid of spurious messages when displaying a message or
- setting an errorlevel code.
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- Version 2.2 - 02/05/91
- Streamlined for faster loading and a smaller .EXE
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- Version 2.1 - 01/27/91
- Added a cancel button to the MessageBox and fixed the bug where
- ExitWDos was adding a space to the end of the environment variables.
- Also changed the code so that dashes "-" may be used within messagebox
- strings.
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- Version 2.0 - 01/13/91
- ExitW has been expanded to allow the user to: display a message before
- exiting to DOS, to set the specific errorlevel code that should be
- passed back and to set a specific environment string.
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- Version 1.0 - 06/20/90
- Released
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